Adorable Video Captures Black Bear Cub's First Playground Slide Experience
The school day had just ended at Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, North Carolina. Most students had left, and the ones in the school's "supervised homework h...
Environment Articles
Firefighters Save Sequoia National Park's Beloved Giant Forest From Raging Wildfire
The Sequoia National Park in California's southern Sierra Nevada mountains is best known for its namesake giant sequoias. The park boasts 40 groves of the massive trees,...
Retired Circus Elephants Move To New Home With Plenty Of Room To Explore
After years of intense public pushback, the now-shuttered Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus finally announced the retirement of their Asian elephant performers in...
Commonly Found North American Wildflower Turns Out To Be A Carnivore
The western false asphodel — an herb-like plant found in abundance along North America's West Coast — has been known to science since 1879. But it is only recently that r...
Rare Embryo Found Inside Prehistoric Turtle Egg
The Henan Province in central China is a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs. However, the odd-looking black orb with a blue tint, presented to Fenglu Han and Haishui Jiang b...
Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall In Louisiana As A Powerful Category 4 Storm
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season began with a bang for the residents of Louisiana. On August 29, 2021, the Gulf Coast state was battered by Hurricane Ida, a powerful Ca...
Eco-Friendly Technology Transforms Dryer Lint Into Energy
Clothing made from synthetic materials, such as polyester and nylon, has many positive attributes. It is cheap to produce, lasts for a long time, and is comfortable to we...
UN Climate Report Urges Immediate Action On Climate Change
On August 8, 2021, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first assessment of climate science since 2013. The news was not good...
World's Largest Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica's Ronne Ice Shelf
Antarctica is surrounded by icebergs. However, the finger-shaped chunk of ice that recently broke loose from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf — one of the world's...
100-Year-Old "Monster" Fish Caught In The Detroit River
When Jennifer Johnson and her team embarked on their annual quest to survey the sturgeon population in the Detroit River in mid-April 2021, they had fully expected to fin...
Maldives Unveils Plans For The World's First Floating Island City
The annual 3-to 4-millimeter rise in sea levels is expected to impact many coastal communities in the coming decades. However, few are as vulnerable as the Republic of th...
British Sculptor's Innovative Underwater Museums Double Up As Marine Ecosystems
British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has made it his mission to use his talent to conserve our ecosystems by creating underwater museums. Over the years, the environmen...
These Sea Slugs Behead Themselves And Grow A New Body In Less Than A Month
Regeneration, or the ability to regrow body parts, is a fairly widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom. However, the skill is usually restricted to growing a new tail...
15 US States Are About To Get Inundated With Billions Of Noisy Cicadas
Fifteen US states, including New York, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, as well as Washington D.C., will soon be buzzing with billions, and perhaps even...
Unexpected Life Found Beneath Antarctica's Floating Ice Shelves
Though it is not unusual to find marine animals thriving under the Antarctica seafloor, researchers had always assumed that all life would become less abundant farther aw...
Stunning Yellow King Penguin Photographed On South Georgia Island
King penguins, the second-largest penguin species, typically sport a distinct black-and-white coat with a yellowish-gold dash of color on their collar. However, one young...
Conservationists Rescue Endangered Giraffes Trapped On Kenyan Island
In 2011, conservationists moved eight Rothschild's giraffes to Longicharo Island, a rocky peninsula on Lake Baringo in Western Kenya. The scientists hoped the isolated ar...
The World's Smallest-Known Reptile Is About The Size Of A Sunflower Seed!
Madagascar, an island off the coast of Africa, is home to some of the world's most exciting and unique animal species — about 75 percent of which cannot be found anywhere...
Smithsonian's National Zoo Giant Pandas And Other Animals Enjoy The Snow
This week's severe winter storm, which dumped record amounts of snow in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, had most residents scrambling for the safety and warmth of the...
California Company Hopes To Pave The World's Roads With Recycled Plastic
The invention of plastic has been a double-edged sword for humanity. While the cheap, versatile material has made life convenient, it is virtually indestructible and take...
Saudi Arabia Announces "The Line" — A Zero Carbon City With No Cars Or Streets
With over 4.1 billion people, or around 55 percent of the world's population, living in urban areas, cities and towns worldwide are getting increasingly congested. In add...
Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Eruption Creates Spectacular Lava Lake
After erupting almost continuously for over three decades — from 1983 to 2018 — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano finally seemed to lose steam, producing no lava for nearly two ye...
How Cher Helped Free "The World's Loneliest Elephant"
The cameraman zooms in on the anxious elephant, who paces back and forth. However, the pachyderm's demeanor instantly calms down upon hearing a soothing ballad from Disne...
Why Are Killer Whales Ramming Boats In Spain And Portugal?
Killer whales, or orcas, are the largest members of the oceanic dolphin family. While the intelligent mammals, which hunt in large pods, are known for their orchestrated...